Delphi Developer's Guide to OpenGL Wordware Publishing | August-25-1999 | ISBN: 1556226578 | 450 pages | PDF | 1.2MB A comprehensive title targeted at experienced 32-bit Delphi programmers and developers in the use of the industry graphics standard library, OpenGL, which has become a standard for programming in the animation and computer game industries. The Delphi Developer's Guide to OpenGL gives an outline of OpenGL--once a proprietary graphics library that used to reside only on expensive workstations--and explains its capabilities, including how to use it inside Borland's popular programming language, Delphi. The book begins with a tour of creating a Delphi project that can utilize OpenGL. Over the first five chapters, the book demonstrates how 3D graphics work using popular computer graphics nomenclature as well as instructions for drawing OpenGL objects in perspective within a Delphi window, and the implementation of the three different types of OpenGL lighting (ambient, specular, and diffuse) upon those objects. While the book provides great coverage on some of OpenGL's effects (fog, transparency, and mapping textures to surfaces), the most important chapter is "Picking," which discusses how to detect a user's interaction with OpenGL objects (i.e., detecting a user's selection and movement of an onscreen object). download links Mirror mirror |
Andreano Lanusse. Reasons to Migrate from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2009
Embarcadero tech notes | no ISBN | Feb 2009 | 61 pages | PDF | 1.4Mb
Embarcadero tech notes | no ISBN | Feb 2009 | 61 pages | PDF | 1.4Mb
This article gives a few good reasons to migrate, along with an overview of all the new features added to Delphi since version 7.